Shuttle.



PATENTED AUG. 23, 1904. R. H. STERRETT.

SHUTTLE.

APPLIoATxoN FILED MAB. 2a, 1901.

UNITED STATES Patented August 23, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.,l

SHUTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 768,408, dated. August 23, 1904.

` Application led March 28, 1901. Serial No. 53,187. (-No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, it nca/y con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. STERRETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shuttles, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in` shuttles, with the object in View of providing against the breaking down of the cop at its ends bythe running of the thread oif the end of the cop in instances where the winding of the cop has not been perfectly regular, as often happens in the art. p

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- K Figure l is a plan view of a shuttle such as is ordinarily used in connection with silk-looms. Fig. 2 is a view of the same in front elevation. Eig. 3 is a vertical section taken in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 1.

The body of the vshuttle is denoted by ct, and it is provided with the usual means for causing it to engage the shuttle-box in position to be thrown back and forth'across the shed. 4

The cop is denoted by b and occupies its usual position within an opening c in the body of the shuttle, the tension devices d and e being located as usual, as well as the guide f, through which the thread passes as it comes to the tension devices from the bridge g.

As heretofore constructed the thread has been allowed to ride along the bridge g from one end of the cop to the other, back and forth, and when for any reason the cop was imperfectly wound by the threads at the end having fallen over the end out of the position corresponding to the particular layer on the cop to which they belong the thread has drawn over the end of the cop, producing a binding and breaking of the thread. To overcome this vannoyance and the damage and loss of time re sulting therefrom, I have provided the bridge g with an eye L, preferably located about midway of its ends, through which the thread c'y as it Vcornes from the surface of the cop at all times leads, thereby preventing it from fall- -ing over the end of the. cop and the damage reception of an elongated cop of thread and with guide and tension devices at one side of the elongated opening for directing the thread to the exterior of the shuttle, the said' shuttle being provided with a stationary guide located at a point above and intermediate of the ends of the cop and in proximity to the cop for receiving the thread directly from the cop as vit passes on its way to the guide and directing it constantly toward said intermediate point at' which the guide is located, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of March, 1901.

. ROBERT H.. STERRE'IT.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, O. S. SUNDGREN. 

